The last act is tragic, however happy all the rest of the play is; at the last a little earth is thrown upon our head, and that is the end for ever.

There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.

Joaquin Phoenix

Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality the cost becomes prohibitive.

William F. Buckley

My sense of humor is a turkey, and I pull it out of the oven and baste it in reality.

Tracy Morgan

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.

Harry Vardon

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Ray Lewis

Had they not been taken, she asked, to circuses when they were children? Never, he answered, as if she asked the very thing he wanted; had been longing all these days to say, how they did not go to circuses.

Virginia Woolf

Chief Seattle, of the Indians that inhabited the Seattle area, wrote a wonderful paper that has to do with putting oneself in tune with the universe. He said,

Joseph Campbell

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

Hermann Hesse

Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

Charles Dickens

Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

Language is the dress of thought.

Samuel Johnson

Life is a dead-end street.

H. L. Mencken